384: Closing Your Counselling Practice

Hello and a very warm welcome to episode 384 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast with Rory Lees-Oaks and Ken Kelly.

Rory and I taking you on a journey today of three stops starting with ethical sustainable practice.

Today we're looking at something that I think is a topic that is not spoken about often and it's when you are closing or winding down a counselling practice that may be retirement, It may be that you're going in a different direction.

So we're going to be discussing what we need to think about with that today.

Then into practice matters.

Rory, you've already beautifully teed up the interview.

Finding work after qualifying, that's always an evergreen topic in our Facebook group, that's for sure.

So definitely stay tuned for that one.

And then student services.

Today we are covering choosing the right counselling study books.

So there you have it.

That's our episode 384, starting off, Rory, with winding down or closing your counselling practice.

I think we were just talking very, very recently, weren't we? Because this is a process that both of us have had to go through.

I know you had a conversation day before yesterday, I think it was, where you were speaking to somebody else who brought this same topic up.

But yet when you search for it, there's not a massive amount of information about it.

And it occurs to me that Every counsellor, as we go into practice, there's going to be a day that we go out of practice.

So much information about going into practice, so little about going out of practice.

What do we need to consider on this, Rory?

Well, I mean, I think that we need to consider a lot of elements when we decide to hang up our ears, as we sometimes say, and move on in our lives from our practice.